Archpriest Men Biography

Men Alexander Volfovich, Archpriest O. Grauerman on January 22, about the patronymic: “Vladimirovich or Wolfovich? Reading about Alexander’s father, you can find in various sources both writing. It is natural to assume that the first option is the Russification of the Jewish Patronymic. We will touch on this issue in more detail. The father of the future archpriest was called Wolf Hershelibovich.

He began to call Vladimir Grigoryevich in the years, when he worked as an engineer at the textile factory. The court took place, which completely acquitted the signatures on the linden invoices were faked. Only then did the opportunity appeared to restore documents and return to Moscow. Since the old passport was lost in the courts, the new one was already written out on Vladimir Grigoryevich, as it was in the investigation documents.

Subsequently, the father of the future priest even had to draw up a certificate that Vladimir Grigoryevich and Wolf Gershleibovich was the same person, and Alexander Volfovich Men, born before all these events, turned out to be the son of Vladimir Grigoryevich. Since about. Alexander worked in the Russian cultural environment, his patronymic underwent a similar transformation, and many people remembered it precisely as Alexander Vladimirovich.

He himself readily accepted both options. It is curious that the patronymic of Volfovich was intensely emphasized in the abusive publications of the Soviet press. Then he worked as a chief engineer at a textile factory in Orekhovo-Zuev. He was a non -religious person. Elena Semenovna Men in girlishness Tsuperfain was born in the year.

Living in Kharkov, in the year Elena entered a private gymnasium, in which she with enthusiasm went to the lessons of the Law of God. In the 8th and 9th grade, she already lived in Moscow with her grandmother. After nine years, Elena lived in Moscow and worked as a drawing. She married a wolf in the year. She died in the city of the Main family in Koptelsky Lane.

In the year he entered the Moscow Pure-Meshovaya Institute. In the year, the institute was disbanded and students were transferred to the Irkutsk agricultural institute "brought closer to the furs." In the year, Alexander married a student at Natalia Fedorovna Grigorenko. In May, he was expelled from the institute in the last year for communication with the diocesan administration at that time in the country was unfolding the frantic Khrushchev anti -religious campaign.

Odintsovo, Moscow Region In the city, he was killed by an unknown criminal in the village. Semhoz of the Moscow Region Alexander Borisov about the murder of Fr. It comes from what we were talking about before. That the vision and understanding of Christianity and Orthodoxy by the Father Alexander was different from the vision and understanding of some circles and among the lower link of the church, which recently came, fanatically tuned, and understanding, which, apparently, was separated by the units of these most competent authorities, for which Christianity, preached by Father Alexander, Orthodoxy did not look like that.

Because this is a common thing - when the state structures strive for the existing current, all the more so powerful as the Church, adapt to their goals. And then there was a period - the end of the 10ths when different currents arose, as in the Central Committee - Ligachev does not allow, and Yakovlev allows some kind of transmission. The same thing, apparently, was in the competent authorities of the KGB.

And apparently, some of them, since the unity of command was shaken, decided to remove this man - too active, too effective in his sermon, he performed almost every day and even went on television. In the summer of the year, his father Alexander was invited to say about the meaning of life without saying a word about God. He agreed and spoke in those concepts and terms, which are understandable to an intelligent educated person.

Well, not only, of course. And I think that on this substrate the idea was born to remove a too influential priest who sets out either Christianity that we need. And such a decision was made. Why is it so - because I just know people, radio journalists who were talking with Father Alexander, he was invited, broadcast on the radio. After the murder, firstly, the records disappeared immediately - videos, audio recordings - from studios.

Simple criminals could not do this. There were even calls with threats-“Here we know, your daughter is going on such and such a bus”, the fifth to tenth, hints are clear. So these certificates, which did not connect to the case, say that it was not just a criminal offense committed by some random person.The investigation was conducted - many people were also invited from the environment of the father of Alexander, so we have the opportunity to imagine a picture - it was carried out in every possible way so as to take away from the essence somewhere to the side.

Alexandra was killed on household grounds: “I very well remembered the morning of September 9, the fog in the Podolsky district was such that I followed him as in milk, I probably never saw such a fog. If there was the same fog in the Semkhoz, then there is nothing surprising in the fact that no one saw the killer. In my opinion, the man was killed the night from the train. The murder was extremely unprofessional.

If a KGB would have taken up such a matter, then the victim would not have been allowed to return home. And the smaller died of blood loss, if the ambulance arrived early for 40 minutes, then about. Alexandra would most likely be saved. If you look for a policy, then it’s definitely not a KGB. The KGB received nothing from this. And why create problems from scratch and clean someone?

There are problems with Landsbergis, or somewhere in Georgia, in Azerbaijan, with popular fronts in all republics. The KGB received nothing from this, no bonuses, only solid disadvantages, because immediately the wave rose that, you see, priests in the Soviet Union were killed, and even a Jew. So I am convinced that this is not a KGB. Second: I am convinced that no church radicals.

There were simply no them. That is, today I will not entrust, today I get threats, including physical reprisals. Everything happens. Today is another church life than at the end of the x. Then there were no Orthodox activists, militants and so on. The atmosphere was different. Again, the most radical ideas of Alexander's father were quite in line with the official patriarchy theology and journalism of that time, and there were some dissidents, some captainchuk, for example, father Dmitry Dudko.

But these people with an ax in their hand are completely impossible. Still, they were people who at that time still very closely felt their kinship and the actual experience of persecution, so it was completely inconceivable to present them as executioners, they would hardly have dreamed about it then. Of course, there is a well -known phrase that "the warders will be Jews in the concentration camp of my dreams." It is very easy, of course, executioners and victims change places, but not at such a speed.

Therefore, I think that the expected revenge of the Orthodox fundamentalists is not. Then they were still vegetarians. But nothing should be done pointless, stupid. There are terrible words: "kill time." Correct words, but scary. Because time is our life. And if we kill, waste time, we kill our own life. Alexander menu.